CBDAR 2011 - Fourth International Workshop on Camera-Based Document Analysis and Recognition (CBDAR 2011)

Pervasive use of camera phones and hand-held digital still and video cameras have let us discover that image-based recording of information by just pressing a button is really convenient. In addition to imaging faces and scenes, people have started capturing documents to preserve contents. Cameras, which are now functioning as personal copiers, will soon produce a huge number of imaged documents that are beyond manual handling. Although traditional techniques developed in the field of document analysis and recognition provide us with a good starting point, they cannot be directly used on camera captured images. This leads us to a new sub-field of research.

CBDAR is the international workshop with a special focus on camera captured documents. Presentation of up-to-date issues and techniques as well as discussions on future directions will boost research in this relatively new area. Participants will share experiences and problems in the area.

Topics of Interest

include, but are not limited to:

camera based acquisition
restoration of camera captured documents (dewarping, deblurring, etc.)
image degradation models for camera captured characters/documents
document image quality analysis
character segmentation/recognition from scene images
layout analysis for camera captured documents
video of text / text in video
document image retrieval
devices and algorithms for camera-based document analysis and recognition
device constrained techniques and algorithms
performance evaluation and metrics
applications such as translation, reading text for the blind, etc